History Characters / TheTalesOfHoffmannLuthersTavern

* BeardOfSorrow: In the ''Musical TV Theater'' adaptation, the drunken, depressed Hoffmann has PermaStubble, while his past/dream self is clean shaven.

* WeirdnessMagnet: Hoffmann's characters tend to be this to begin with, though it's exaberated here as the opera retells ''three'' of his stories.

* CompositeCharacter: In the play, Hoffmann's best friend ([[AdaptationNameChange there named Frièderick]]) and The Muse were different characters. A twofer, as Frièderick was himself based on Friedrich from ''The Lost Reflection'' and Siegmund from Literature/TheSandman1816, (both being ignored voices of reason in their respective Hoffmann story).

* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: Some stagings cut TheReveal that Nicklausse is the Muse [[GrandfatherClause while still having a female soprano play the character]], [[AmbiguousGender raising some questions about their gender]] without ever coming close to answering them. The 1951 film is an example of this. [[note]]Apparently, the plan ''was'' for the Muse reveal to happen here, but it was cut for whatever reason.[[/note]]

** Pamela Brown's Nicklausse has seemingly no issues with Hoffmann romancing his loves as long as it doesn't get him into trouble. Compare this to Sylvia Kuziemski's take on the character, who considers Stella and all of her incarnations bad news and wants Hoffmann to stay far away from them.

* TheAlcoholic: The FramingDevice shows him telling his stories in Luther's Tavern, where he's sitting DrowningHisSorrows. Taken even further in the 1983 movie, where he’s already getting drunk and seeing hallucinations of beautiful women before he even gets to the tavern.

* TheAlcoholic: The FramingDevice shows him telling his stories in Luther's Tavern, where he's sitting DrowningHisSorrows.

* SweetPollyOliver: Takes the form of a man named Nicklausse to get close to Hoffmann.

* CompositeCharacter: The play combines him with his protagonists [[Literature/TheSandman Nathaniel]] and Erasmus. (More often then not, Hoffmann wrote his nameless AuthorAvatar narrator not as an extraordinary person, [[FirstPersonPeripheralNarrator but as someone with a tendency to run into such people]]). Aspects of his own life ''did'' [[WriteWhatYouKnow leak into his fiction]], so this merging isn't completely unfounded.

* CompositeCharacter: In the play, Hoffmann's best friend ([[AdaptationNameChange there named Frièderick]]) and The Muse were different characters. A twofer, as Frièderick was himself based on Friedrich from ''The Lost Reflection'' and Siegmund from Literature/TheSandman, (both being ignored voices of reason in their respective Hoffmann story).

* AdaptationalMundanity: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. They have been changed from a fairly straightforward (and minor) SatelliteCharacter to a muse in human form, and have as a result had thier role expanded to become TheLancer to Hoffmann.

* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: He's never shown carrying out the duties of a councillor. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that the FramingDevice is set over the course of just [[ExtremelyShortTimespan a few hours during the evening]].

* AdaptationalJobChange: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in the 1951 film, where she's starring in the fictional show ''The Ballet of the Enchanted Butterfly'' rather than the usual Theatre/DonGiovanni. However, we can infer from a poster that she ''has'' also been in a production of Giovanni in the past.

* MeaningfulName: Stella means "star", which is [[LampshadedTrope Lampshaded]].

* SatelliteLoveInterest: Most of what we know about her comes from Hoffmann's narration and what we can discern from his "other" three love interests, who all supposedly represent one aspect of her personality. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in the 1970 film, where she actually meets up with Hoffmann at the end to have a conversation about their relationship with him. It ends with Hoffmann dumping her.

* ScrewThisImOut: In the 1970 film, when Stella realizes what he has done, he quickly darts out the door.

* TheQuisling: Lindorf manages to BuyHimOff and get the message and key intended for Hoffmann.

* ImpendedMessenger: Granted, in his case it was mostly his own fault.

* CompositeCharacter: The play combines him with his protagonists [[Literature/TheSandman Nathaniel]] and Erasmus. (More often then not, Hoffmann wrote his nameless AuthorAvatar narrator not as an extraordinary person, [[FirstPersonPeripheralNarrator but as someone with a tendency to run into such people.]]) Aspects of his own life ''did'' [[WriteWhatYouKnow leak into his fiction]], so this merging isn't completely unfounded.

* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: He's never shown carrying out the duties of a councillor. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that the FramingDevice is set over the course of just [[IncrediblyShortTimespan a few hours during the evening]].

* {{Expy}}: Based on "The Enemy" from ''A New Year Eve's Adventure'', who was a blatant TakeThat to Hoffmann's romantic rival Johann Gerhard Graepel, the son of a wealthy merchant. Graepel was in an arranged marriage with Hoffmann's crush, Julia Mark, and was described by both the writer and several of his contemporaries as a RichInDollarsPoorInSense UpperClassTwit KavorkaMan. He sadly turned out to be an [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]] AbusiveHusband who "beat her when he had no words", and the marriage ended in an (at the time, controversial) divorce.

[[folder: Klien-Zack]]

* TheEndingChangesEverything: With the song's reprise in the 1970 film, Hoffmann reveals that the song was one big TakeThat to Lindorff (or retroactively transforms it into one.)
* TheGhost: By virtue of being a fictional character, only mentioned in a song. He does however appear in person in an ImagineSpot in the 1951 film, [[CreatorCameo played by choreographer Frederick Ashton.]]

* HopelessSuitor: Hoffmann gets distracted while singing and starts vaxing about his lost love. In the 1951 film, the result is that Klien-Zack is shown to have feelings for a noblewoman way out of his league (played -- not insignificantly -- by Stella's actress, Moira Shearer.)

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[[folder: E.T.A. Hoffmann]]

* AdaptationalVillainy: A side effect of Hoffmann being combined with his character Erasmus (of ''The Lost Reflection'') is that it turns the classic author into a killer on the run from the Venecian authorities... [[UnreliableNarrator maybe.]]

* CompositeCharacter: The play combines him with his protagonists [[Literature/TheSandman Nathaniel]] and Erasmus. (More often then not, Hoffmann wrote his nameless AuthorAvatar narrator not as an extraordinary person, [[FirstPersonPeripheralNarrator but as someone with a tendency to run into such people.]]) Aspects of his own life ''did'' [[WriteWhatYouKnow leak into his fiction,]] so this merging isn't completely unfounded.

[[folder: Nicklausse]]

* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: Some stagings cut TheReveal that Nicklausse is the Muse [[GrandfatherClause while still having a female soprano play the character,]] [[AmbiguousGender raising some questions about their gender]] without ever coming close to answering them. The 1951 film is an example of this. [[note]] Apparently, the plan ''was'' for the Muse reveal to happen here, but it was cut for whatever reason. [[/note]]

** The Muse's final scene can be performed as an AnguishedDeclarationOfLove, or simply as a friendly pep talk. In the 1951 film, this scene isn't included, and Nicklausse is never said to be anything but [[PlatonicLifePartners Hoffmann's friend and companion.]]

* CompositeCharacter: In the play, Hoffmann's best friend ([[AdaptationNameChange there named Frièderick]]) and The Muse were different characters. A twofer, as Frièderick was himself based on Friedrich from ''The Lost Reflection'' and Siegmund from Literature/TheSandman, (both being ignored voices of reason in their respective Hoffmann story.)

* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: He's never shown carrying out the duties of a councillor. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that the FramingDevice is set over the course of just [[IncrediblyShortTimespan a few hours during the evening.]]

[[folder: Stella]]

* {{Expy}}: Stella wasn't a real person, strictly speaking. [[CompositeCharacter Rather, she seems to be a stand-in for various people in Hoffmann's life.]] Her RealLife counterpart(s) would be Dora Hatt (an older married woman Hoffmann had an affair with while tutoring her), Demoiselle Neuherr (an actress he had a one-night stand with) and/or Julia Mark (another pupil of his he ended up in a love triangle with, leading to a rivalry with her husband, and inspiring several of his stories.) The latter two happened ''after'' Hoffmann married his wife Mishaelina...

[[folder: Andres]]

[[folder: Luther]]

[[folder:Councillor Lindorff]]
!!Councillor Lindorff

* AdaptationalWimp: The 1916 film completely cuts the whole [[TwoAliasesOneCharacter Four Aliases, One Character]] element, and thus reduces Lindorff to just some guy who gets {{Cuckold}}ed.

* CompositeCharacter: Coppellius, Doctor. R. and Dappertutto were not connected at all in the original stories. Here, their counterpart are all implied to be guises used by the same entity.

* MasterOfDisguise: The 1951 movie outright shows the three main antagonists remove their LatexPerfection masks, revealing Lindorff's face underneath.

* SympatheticAdulterer: In the 1916 film, she has an affair with Hoffmann despite already being engaged to Lindorff.

* AdaptationalHeroism: In the 1970 film, Lindorff has to practically steal the letter from him. Later, he leads Stella to Hoffmann himself, showing clear regret over what happened.

* TheQuisling: Lindorff manages to BuyHimOff and get the message and key intended for Hoffmann.

* {{Gonk}}: A Dwarf with a large belly, whose bones make audible noises while moving. The 1951 film also portrayes him as a jester with a GagNose, on top of all that.